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Revisiting the role of the resource curse in shaping institutions and growth
Murshed, Murshed, S.M.; Badiuzzaman, Badiuzzaman, M.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2015
This paper examines the effect of natural resource dependence on growth in a cross-country setting during 1970 to 2010 … there is a resource curse adversely effecting growth via institutional deterioration in the longer term (1970-2010), but … more for growth, including governance and constraints on the executive relative to democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195799
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Good institutions and fair trade: a road map to local and global social harmony.
Mamoon, Dawood - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007
The paper examines how legal, economic, political and social institutions fare with different measures of inequality in …, political and social. Among legal institutions, rule of law and control for corruption have a stronger impact on inequality than … it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442179
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Good Institutions and Fair Trade
Mamoon, Dawood - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007
The paper examines how legal, economic, political and social institutions fare with different measures of inequality in …, political and social. Among legal institutions, rule of law and control for corruption have a stronger impact on inequality than … it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095140
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Modernisation, clearance and the continuum of violence in Colombia
Ross, Ross, E.B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730712
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Modernisation, clearance and the continuum of violence in Colombia
ROSS, E.B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442202
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Understanding the diversity of conceptions of well-being and quality of life
Gasper, Gasper, D.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due to not only use of differing values and differing research instruments but also differing standpoints, differing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837471
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Understanding the diversity of conceptions of well-being and quality of life
Gasper, Des - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due to not only use of differing values and differing research instruments but also differing standpoints, differing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602813
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What could anti-trust in the OECD do for development?
Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
The extra-territorial effects of cartels, mergers and other non-competitive activities require consideration especially if they harm consumers and firms in developing countries. This paper provides an overview of the available empirical literature regarding the impact of cartels, mergers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730598
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Conflict and violence in rural Latin America
Kay, Kay, C. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837412
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One hundred years of solitude, accumulation and violence: A comparative historical analysis of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta Valley
Bedoya Arias, Bedoya Arias, M.E. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013
, accumulation and violence interact in a region brought into the worlds’ imaginary by the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez … facilitate the accumulative processes and imbalances within one century of difference, making use of violence as means to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837472